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More than the injured players, the bigger concern for Mangino might be whether his Jayhawks can regain the momentum they seemed to find in their last two victories against Colorado and Iowa State. After losing four games in a row by 10 or fewer points, Kansas' season seemed lost. Yet after two victories against the Big 12's worst teams, the Jayhawks are back on the hunt for a bowl game, and possibly a winning season.
"It's good to know our kids never lost their focus," Mangino said. "They stayed the steady course and kept getting after it, kept sawing wood. Victories are starting to come
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and I think we're playing our best football of the season."
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This Saturday the Jayhawks will need to play their best football of the season, considering Kansas State is the hottest team in the conference. The Wildcats have won three games in a row, including Saturday's victory against No. 4 Texas. With the victory, K-State is receiving votes in both the Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll.
Michael Phillips
Coming into Lawrence Saturday, the concern for the Wildcats might be finding a way to avoid a letdown after such an emotional victory. But if K-State coach Ron Prince's Saturday night celebration of the second-biggest upset in school history is any indication, there shouldn't be any letdown. No, he didn't join in the celebration in Aggieville or even spend time enjoying the moment. Instead, Prince said he spent Saturday night making plans to prepare his team for this Saturday's showdown.
"I think that this is one of those games that has our players' full attention because of who the opponent is," Prince said.
Football Notebook:
K-State game not sold out, yet
About 2,500 tickets remain for Saturday's Sunflower Showdown, associate athletics director Jim Marchiony said. Kansas has not had
Mark Mangino on Kansas State:
coaches speak:
They're playing at a high level right now. They've done a great job, when you look back on the Texas game, of making plays, playing with enthusiasm or both sides of the ball.
Ron Prince on Kansas:
"I think that this is one of those games that has our players' full attention because of who the opponent is."
a sold-out game this season. The last sold-out game was last season against Nebraska.
OB Shuffle:
Mangino said there would be no change in the quarterback rotation that he used last week against Iowa State. That rotation involved using both Meier and freshman Todd Reesing throughout the game.
Kansan senior sportswriter Ryan Schneider can be contacted at rschneider@kansan.com.
Edited by Nicole Kelley
Regardless, both agree on the score with Kansas winning 21-7 at the opening of the new stadium. Kansas ended the 1921 season by defeating Missouri in front of 15,480 at Memorial Stadium. When the stadium officially opened; it had a capacity of 22,000. According to the Kansas Athletics Department, the current capacity is 50,250.
While individual statistics were not kept back then, Kansas State had better team statistics than Kansas. K-State had one more first down, 13, than Kansas and also had more yards from scrimmage, 116-111. But two interceptions lifted Kansas to the victory.
The Kansan said several "aggle rooters" made the trip to Lawrence via train to watch the contest. The train brought 1,500 K-State fans to the new stadium.
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It is also unclear what K-State's mascot was in 1921. According to the Kansas State media guide, K-State was known as the Aggies for their first 19 seasons (1896 to 1915), until they switched to the Wildcats (1915 to 1917) nickname. They were the "Farmers" (1917 to 1920) for a brief period, but have settled for "Wildcats" since the 1921 season.
While the Wildcat media guide has them as the "Wildcats" in 1921, the Kansan referred to them, for the most part, as the Aggies that
sunflower showdown
The Kansas vs. Kansas State football rivalry started 104 years ago in 1902. In this game, Kansas shut out Kansas State 16-0 to win the first game of the historic rivalry. Since that game, the two teams have met 102 times. The Jayhawks lead the all-time series against the Wildcats, 62-36-5. In four days, the Kansas and Kansas State rivalry will unfold again in Memorial Stadium. While the Jayhawks lead the all-time series substantially, the Wildcats have been the dominant team the past decade. In 2004, Kansas defeated Kansas State, 31-28, to snap an eleven-
year losing streak. With a victory last season in Manhattan, Kansas State will look to start a new streak Saturday.
There is a lot riding on this year's game. Kansas will try to do something it has never done in its football history; make back-to-back bowl games.
year, "Farmers" was also used in the article to describe K-State.
Kansas State is coming off a stunning upset victory of No. 4 Texas last week in Manhattan, and will look to spoil KU's bowl aspirations. It will also be the first time KSU coach Ron Prince comes to Memorial Stadium.
In the end, everyone agrees on the most important statistic: the Kansas victory.
Kansas football notes from 1921:
football notes from 1921:
> Kansas coach Potsy Clark was in his first of five seasons at the helm.
> In 1921, Kansas was in the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
> Forrest C. "Phog" Allen was
- Drew Davison
Athletics Director.
Tomorrow, the Kansan recounts the 1947 game, which was filled with personal fouls and showcased the hatred between Kansas and Kansas State.
Kansan sportswriter Drew Davison can be contacted at ddavison@kansan.com.
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In last Saturday's game against Northern Arizona, Kansas showed that it had the up-tempo playing style to win conference games. However, the team has a long way to go and a few injured players to return before it will hit its stride.
BY SHAWN SHROYER
Fast-paced plays hold key for future team victories
Kansas fans caught a glimpse during the weekend of just how much running the Jayhawks could do this season, but they are far from hitting their stride.
Kansas' regular starting shooting guard, sophomore Mario Chalmers, saw limited action against Northern Arizona because of a sprained toe. Junior guard Jeremy Case hasn't been in uniform yet this season because of a pulled groin.
And with starting center junior Sasha Kaun out for a few more weeks with a bum knee, dual-threat forwards like sophomore Julian Wright and freshman Darrell Arthur have been confined to playing predominantly in the post.
Coach Bill Self said the pace of Saturday's game was faster than Kansas had played in recent years, but he could envision it playing even more up-tempo.
"With Mario's toe and not a lot of depth right now, we don't have enough bodies to where we can
go out full court, helter-skelter-type pace," Self said. "I think that we can play much faster offensively."
Nevertheless, Kansas displayed a lethal ability to outrun opponents on Saturday, doubling Northern Arizona's fast break points, 13-6.
Most of those fast breaks stemmed from turnovers caused by Kansas' speedy frontcourt. The Lumberjacks committed 21 total turnovers and 14 came from their frontcourt players.
"We like to wear teams down, so it makes our defense better," Robinson said. "When you go out and get easy buckets it helps the morale of the team, and everyone just starts to feed off of that and bring energy to the game."
In addition to easy baskets, Kansas' fast play helped open up its outside game. Northern Arizona's frontcourt was forced to play off of Kansas' guards to prevent them
Kansas, led by junior guard Russell, Robinson and Chalmers who had three steals each, translated those 21 turnovers into 28 points.
from driving the lane. Kansas starters responded by sinking six of nine three-point attempts.
Kansas' performance Saturday also bodes well for the future, both near and distant. Some of the non-conference teams Kansas will play will be undersized and dependant on playing up-tempo-style games and Kansas has shown it would be able to keep up.
Once Chalmers and Case get back to 100 percent, Self will be able to run his team even more and rotate players out when they get tired. And when Kaun's knee heals, players like Wright and Arthur will be able to join players like sophomore guard Brandon Rush on the perimeter to create mismatches.
"Everybody on the team can run up and down the court," Rush said. "We can go all day."
Kansansportswriter ShawnShroyer can be contacted at sshroyer@kansan.com.
Edited by Nicole Kelley
FRIDAY
Swimming & diving at Maryland Invite, all day, College Park, Md.
Swimming & diving at Maryland Invite, all day, College Park, Md.
SUNDAY
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Swimming & diving at Maryland Invite, all day, College Park, Md.
Volleyball vs. Missouri, 7 p.m., Horesei Family Athletics Center
Football vs. Kansas State, 2:30 p.m., Memorial Stadium
Men's basketball vs. Towson,
7 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse
SATURDAY
WEDNESDAY
Men's basketball vs. Oral Roberts, 7 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse
Player to watch: Junior Darnell Jackson tallied eight rebounds and 12 total points for the Jayhawks against Northern Arizona. Jackson was 2-3 from the free throw line and had one blocked shot.
- Woman's basketball vs. UMKC, 7 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse
THURSDAY
Volleyball at Baylor, 7 p.m. Waco, Texas
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Such are the revelations contained in a newly unearthed trove of personal documents, photographs and mementos from basketball's founder, James Naismith.
The items, including handwritten diaries and typed notes, were discovered last spring, when Naismith's granddaughter, Hellen Carpenter, went down to her basement to find an old family photograph.
CLAYTON, Mo. — It's settled. Basketball really did evolve from a childhood game called "Duck on a Rock."
BY CHRISTOPHER LEONARD
》 BASKETBALL
Artifacts chronicle beginning of sport
Instead, Carpenter found journals, keepsakes and typewritten rule sheets that open a new window on the birth of one of the world's most popular sports.
Carpenter is auctioning off the documents in December. She said they settle details about her grandfather's invention, such as the "Eureka" moment when he remembered rules from Duck on a Rock, a Canadian game he played as a child, and applied them to his new game.
The items include the first rules of basketball; photos of the first basketball team and basketball court,
Documents autographed by Naismith only surface two or three times a year, he said. Carpenter's boxes were an especially rare find, he said.
Naismith carefully recorded basketball's birth in 1891.
"My mother told me for years that there was nothing of real value there," said Carpenter, 74.
Chris Ivy disagreed. As director of sports auctions for Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, he was stunned when Carpenter called him and described the documents casually stored in her home in the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield.
The five boxes of documents, photos and items were handed down to Carpenter from her mother Hellen Naismith Dodd, Carpenter said. She kept them around for decades without looking through them.
"It almost crosses into history — it's not just sports collectibles," he said.
and Naismith's description of the very first game; a whistle Naismith used as the first basketball coach in University of Kansas history; and the passport he used to attend the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, the first to feature basketball as a medal sport.
Handwritten diaries show
Naismith was nervous the students wouldn't like his newest invention — Basket Ball, as he called it.
Before the first basketball game was played, Naismith prepared the gym by nailing two baskets to balconies on either end of a court and posting 13 rules of the game on a bulletin board.
"I felt this was a crucial moment in my life as it meant success or failure of my attempt to hold the interest of the class and devise a new game" he wrote.
Naismith also noted in his journal that it took a lot of reminding to keep students from tackling a player when he got possession of the ball.
Naismith knew before his death in 1939 that he had created a lasting game when basketball became an Olympic sport.
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